Sunday, April 06, 2008

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia: The Moment Art Changed Forever

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia: The Moment Art Changed Forever at the Tate Modern. "...Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia were at the cutting edge of art in the first half of the twentieth century, and made a lasting impression on modern and contemporary art. Duchamp invented the concept of the 'readymade': presenting an everyday object as an artwork, Man Ray pioneered avant-garde photographic and film techniques and Picabia’s use of kitsch, popular or low-brow imagery in his paintings undermined artistic conventions."